[Use Of Weapons]

Bouth a few at the weekend:

_Just Another Judgement Day_, by Simon Green. Latest in the Nightside series.

_Mean Streets_, by Various (Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Kat Richardson, & one other)

_Poison Study_, by Maria Snyder. First in a series.

[Stalker]

Just grabbed:

Small Favor- Jim Butcher
Hyperion- Dan Simmons- I like my sci-fi and I've heard this one is a classic so I had to pick it up. I did enjoy Simmons' Ilium and Olympos.

[Salt-Man Z]

Stalker, on Mar 16 2009, 01:22 PM, said:

Hyperion- Dan Simmons- I like my sci-fi and I've heard this one is a classic so I had to pick it up. I did enjoy Simmons' Ilium and Olympos.

Be warned that you'll need to pick up The Fall of Hyperion to finish the story.

[Aptorian]

The Hyperion Cantos including the Endymion books are the best sci-fi I've ever read.

I have a hard time thinking of anything as awesome as the Shriek in sci-fi or fantasy.

[Salt-Man Z]

I broke down and preordered the MMPB of Return of the Crimson Guard. The exchange rate is working for me a little better than when I did the same for NoK last year. ($17 now as opposed to $25 then.)

[Hinter]

Matter by Iain M Banks. Hope its better the the Algebraist.

[Dr Trouble]

I bought Escape From Hell! By Hal Duncan.

I wasn't too sure because I hated Vellum and Ink, but I thought I'd give it a shot. I just hope he's not writing in that stupid fucking way that he does.

[Aptorian]

Adrian Tcaikovsky's Dragonfly Falling.

I liked the ideas of the first one and I want to see what the Nazi-bees get up to next, I just hope he bumps up the pace and works out a better ending because the first one was damn slow and clunky most of the time.

[Cluracan AbSylvas]

I just bought "Dark Haven", third book in the Chronicles of the Necromancer series by Gail Z. Martin.

Fun series, if a little fast. Love her treatment of magic and necromancy in particular; I'm also enjoying the interplay of spirits, live humans and her vampires. Using an untried Xanth rating scale where 1 = any book after book 10 and 10 =Castle Roogna; I give this series a 5 (Centaur Isle if you cared).

All the best,

-- Clu

[koryk]

WHen there is a 3 for 2 I tend to buy 18 for 12 - enough for a year

Dan Simmons - The Terror
I love Dan Simmons. I have never been so cold in a warm environment as reading this fantacised version of a British expedition to find the north passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Wonderfully accurate depiction of the conditions that men lived in for years while waiting for ice packs to melt, with the addition of a mysterious agent intent on murdering everyone. Think of "The Thing" but colder and better.
R Scott Bakker's second book in his trilogy.
Cecilia Dark-Thornton' third book in her first trilogy.
House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson
Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
Blade of Fortriu - Juliet Marillier
A Feast for Crows - George R R Martin

[Use Of Weapons]

koryk, on Mar 17 2009, 11:32 PM, said:

House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson

Oh no! Give it back, return it, get a refund -- do whatever it takes to never, ever read this book! It is a _travesty_! You will hate Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson for tainting the wonder of Dune forever with their terrible characterisation, clunky prose, and glaring, hateful corruptions of the internal consistency of the Dune universe! DON'T DO IT!

[Mentalist]

even though I really an't afford it, ent into Chapters today

swore to myself I woulf just browse

ended up buying Mieville's "The Scar" and a mmpb of Dresden's "Small favour"

[Avatar]

Memories of Ice! (Yesterday) Now halfway through Deadhouse Gates (w.o.w, so cool!)

[Fist Gamet]

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
The Shining
The Weavers of Saramyr
Storm Front (hear too much good about to ignore it)
Tales of The Dying Earth

Best bookbuying splurge in a while

[Salt-Man Z]

Picked up the MMPB of Reaper's Gale today. I also have The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian coming in the mail.

[Stalker]

Fist Gamet, on Mar 23 2009, 04:45 PM, said:

Storm Front (hear too much good about to ignore it)

You shall not regret it. Or in the infinitesimally small chance that you do, don't mention it. Just smile and nod hehe.

I bought The Fall of Hyperion- Dan Simmons, since I really enjoyed Hyperion.

[Fist Gamet]

Ah, Howard's Conan tales are just brilliant.

I see a lot of people getting into Hyperion, good, good, a terrific read. And, yes, the Shrike is awesome.

Thanks for the advice, Stalker

[Avatar]

Hyperion was awsome! Endymion was very good, but not as good as Hyperion. (Also, the end of endymion was a little bit too cruel for me, even though it was beuatiful as well)

[Salt-Man Z]

I thought the Endymion books had some very intriguing ideas in them, but I felt the overall plot to be relatively lackluster. Still good reads, but not up to the level of the two Hyperion books.

Fist Gamet said:

Ah, Howard's Conan tales are just brilliant.

I'd heard so much about them, and there had been a copy sitting at Half Price Books taunting me for months, so I finally broke down and went to buy it, only to find out that it was gone! So I nabbed it on eBay for an even lower price. Plus, I figure since I just read The Chronicles of Amber (written in the 70s) and The Dying Earth (1950), the next step is obviously to check out the 1930s, right?

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 25 March 2009 - 03:24 PM

[murphy72]

The books I finally broke down and ordered are:

Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
World Too Near: Book 2 of The Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon